3.10.0 - 2024-05-20

[jrfnl]

Added

• Tokenizer support for PHP 8.2 Disjunctive Normal Form (DNF) types. #3731, Proposal for supporting PHP 8.2+ Disjunctive Normal Form Types in the Tokenizer #387, PHP 8.2 | Tokenizer/PHP: add support for DNF types #461
  • Includes new T_TYPE_OPEN_PARENTHESIS and T_TYPE_CLOSE_PARENTHESIS tokens to represent the parentheses in DNF types.
  • These new tokens, like other parentheses, will have the parenthesis_opener and parenthesis_closer token array indexes set and the tokens between them will have the nested_parenthesis index.
  • The File::getMethodProperties(), File::getMethodParameters() and File::getMemberProperties() methods now all support DNF types. PHP 8.2 | File::getMethodParameters(): add support for DNF types #471, PHP 8.2 | File::getMethodProperties(): add support for DNF types #472, PHP 8.2 | File::getMemberProperties(): add support for DNF types #473
  • Additionally, the following sniff has been updated to support DNF types:
    • Generic.PHP.LowerCaseType Generic/LowerCaseType: add support for examining DNF types #478
  • Thanks to Juliette Reinders Folmer for the patches.
• Documentation for the following sniffs:
  • Squiz.WhiteSpace.FunctionClosingBraceSpace
  • Thanks to Przemek Hernik for the patch.

Changed

• The help screens have received a face-lift for improved usability and readability. Config: revamp the help screen(s) #447
  • Thanks to Juliette Reinders Folmer for the patch and thanks to Colin Stewart, Gary Jones and @mbomb007 for reviewing.
• The Squiz.Commenting.ClosingDeclarationComment sniff will now also examine and flag closing comments for traits. Squiz/ClosingDeclarationComment: add trait support #442
  • Thanks to Rodrigo Primo for the patch.
• The following sniff(s) have efficiency improvements:
  • Generic.Arrays.ArrayIndent
  • Thanks to Rodrigo Primo for the patch.
• The autoloader will now always return a boolean value indicating whether it has loaded a class or not. Autoloader: fix missing return value #479
  • Thanks to Juliette Reinders Folmer for the patch.
• Various housekeeping, including improvements to the tests and documentation.
  • Thanks to Dan Wallis, Danny van der Sluijs, Rodrigo Primo and Juliette Reinders Folmer for their contributions.

Fixed

• Fixed bug Generic/CallTimePassByReference: add support for self, parent and static #466 : Generic.Functions.CallTimePassByReference was not flagging call-time pass-by-reference in class instantiations using the self/parent/static keywords.
  • Thanks to Rodrigo Primo for the patch.
• Fixed bug Tokenizers/Comment: add tests + fix two edge case bugs #494 : edge case bug in tokenization of an empty block comment.
  • Thanks to Juliette Reinders Folmer for the patch
• Fixed bug Tokenizers/Comment: add tests + fix two edge case bugs #494 : edge case bug in tokenization of an empty single-line DocBlock.
  • Thanks to Juliette Reinders Folmer for the patch
• Fixed bug Generic/InlineControlStructure: fix error when handling else if #499 : Generic.ControlStructures.InlineControlStructure now handles statements with a comment between else and if correctly.
  • Thanks to Rodrigo Primo for the patch.

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New Contributors

The PHP_CodeSniffer project is happy to welcome the following new contributors:
@przemekhernik

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Merged: 26 pull requests

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This discussion was created from the release 3.10.0 - 2024-05-20.